15 Extremely Simple Board Games That I Enjoy

Loved the background music here.
Sublime!

Now make one about the most complex games

I cannot find Las Vegas anywhere :( does anyone know where I can buy one?

The Mind can also be played with a deck of cards, it's called literature :)

I'm curious if you've ever tried "Above and Below"! It's a board game I never hear anyone talk about, but it's a great worker placement/adventure game.

“Send your baby to the moon while giving it food”

Thanks man, I got my wife and kids to play pandemic thanks to your recommendation, and we had a blast. Now I want to get my one hold out kid, who doesn't want to learn for 10 min at the start of a game - so times up title recall sounds like a great next choice. Thanks for putting these videos together! I have thrown out monopoly, risk, trivial pursuit, life, battleship, and some other not so great games.

My family and I play telestrations but with just a bunch of dry erase index cards and markers and it's a total crowd pleaser. Some people hate board games in my family. But they love this game. It's so much fun

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Ty for this

I bought Telestrations After Dark on a whim one day when it was on sale and it has become a game that my friends and I have to play at least once during our weekends away. It is a great game and very quick to pick-up and if people are bad at drawing, it's even better. We never keep score. It doesn't matter. I also switched the black pens that come in the box with coloured ones so you can see right away who did which drawing. Only once in my entire history of playing this game has a secret word carried through to the end of a round.

This is a great list!

So Telestrations is Scrawl but not dirty?

If you like the idea of Telestrations but want a non family-friendly version, try Scrawl. Or, try what we did one time and use blank pieces of paper & pens and use Cards Against Humanity cards for the prompts.

My best 3 boardgames are:
1. Hick Hack in Gackelwack
2. Cloud 9
3. Pictionary

You should check them out! It's really fun!

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I used to work in after school care and Snake Oil was legitimately the most popular game amongst the kids we had because it’s just so easy to play and so zany. 10/10 would recommend

Title Recall sounds like Fishbowl

Thanks for the overviews. I will definitely be picking up a few of these.

I love the "ugly" art edition of sushi go

Snake Oil is a fantastic game. Especially with a group of kids, you'll be suprised how creative/hilarious their ideas are.

Concept is personally a really good one for people i know. Again it's essentially charades but instead of acting out the answers, you have a grid of symbols you place tokens on without saying anything. And again there is a point system that i don't think anyone has ever used.
I have a mix of people who love games like articulate, that are loud chaotic, put you on the spot and make you act something out. And the other half of people thing that is the worst torture in the world. I find Concept acts as a good middle ground. Extroverts are happy they get to play a game they like and introverts don't have to run and hide. Everybody wins?

Thanks for the tip, ProZD! I picked up Sushi Go at your recommendation to try with my family of 5 this Christmas. First time we've all been together in a long time. Well of course happy families play board games, so we wanted to give it a try. 10/10 would love to see a replay of the moment my dad flipped his lid over a rule (which we were all learning at the same time!), yelled at me, made my mom cry, and I walked away from the game. Certified Christmas classic that we will not soon forget! EDIT: All of this over a THREE POINT TECHNICALITY!

Love Letter reminds me of Fluxx, in that it’s a “draw one, play one” type of game, and I looove Fluxx, so I’ll check Love Letter out!

A really fun game with family that you don’t need to buy is Pictionary. I swear my brother and I are telepathic. I drew a slightly curvy line and he correctly guessed beach. He drew a strange blobby face and I guessed Aladin (it was the genie). It’s fun to play with people you’re really close to because you may know exactly what they’re trying to do.

I played love letter with my family a few times over Christmas and it was really fun! I certainly recommend

A game that is maybe not as simple of these but is really fun is ukatoa. It’s very fun, I definitely recommend

My family likes playing telestrations. The all time best drawing from one of our games was Big Bird being executed by ISIS.

Excellent video. Appreciate the help. Could you tell me who makes the Vegas game?

so i've never played the mind, but my parents absolutely love playing it with my best friend's parents. we're both board game families so we have game nights a lot, and they always tend to play the mind towards the end of the night when they've all had a couple glasses of wine. it's incredibly entertaining to watch a group of four slightly tipsy adults try to play the mind. it gets very loud for a game where you can't talk.

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I love your enthusiasm when your explaining these games.

Why is the fucking background music so emotional? You're talking about sushi with happy silly faces and the music is making me feel sad lmao

Why can I picture marketing majors playing snake oil in class

Such a useful video - thank you. Now I feel less hesitant to try to introduce board games to any group I spend time with

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Good recommendations. Just One and Telestrations are great. Monikers is just like time's up, and really fun.

My gf and I beat the mind the second time we ever played... its crazy how much different it is to play with different groups.

1 simple game i like is pi it's not a good game but i have fun playing it with my family

Also note with loveletter once everyone knows the game enough it just evolves into sheer mind fuckery and knowing the group you play with which atleast for me usually ends up in very funny shenanigans enhancing the experience.

Unfortunetly weight is the most unreliable stat of games on bgg

Your music synced with the preroll ad lmao i was so confused

I would suggest Blockus. It's simple enough for a three year old to learn but very difficult to master.

My family has played a version of Title Recall for years and we just call it Fishbowl, everyone writes down 3 nouns and we toss them in a bowl then play the game the same way

Just One sounds like it might be a fun game for my ESL class to play.

This video got me to buy sushi go 4 years ago which ended up being one of my gateway games

Song in the background?